Today we continue following the evolution and exploits of the Delian League. In the 450s BCE, they become embroiled in two theaters of conflict. The first saw them begin to more squarely meet Sparta and many other allied cities of the Peloponnesian League in what is called the First Peloponnesian War. At the same time, Athens and the Delian League answered the call of a rebel leader in Egypt and there the League got tangled up fighting Persia yet again. A siege at the White Castle (no, not that one) ensues, and in the end the Delian League suffers some pretty heavy losses in a foreign land.
Today we delve into a grey area between myth and history: the Trojan War. The Homeric epic poem The Iliad is now one of...
Now that we have witnessed the birth of the Delian League, in today's episode we trace their exploits in the 470s BCE. The league...
In which we meet the Ubaid people and see how they became the first inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia and used their natural resources to...
